The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-19

ing and afternoon
SEMIANNUAL MEETING OF BEELINE SUR
GEONS' ASSOCIATION, Bates House. morning
and afternoon.
ENGLISH'S oPERA-HOUSE-"Our Irish Visitors {"
Afternoon and evening.
THE MUSEUM-"Uncle Toms Cabin" afternoon
and evening.
In Brief
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to the
following persons: John " ison and Mary Cole,
j. e Head and Mary Bowser, George B. Wood
and Kate ). Doerr, Truman B. French and Eliza
A. Cooper, Alonzo johnson and Nettle s.
Thomas. Joseph N. Brunson and Rachel Van
Camp. Bernard Duecker and Mary w. Lipps.
DROPPED DEAD AWAY FROM HONE.
Samuel Marks, the junk dealer on South
Meridian street, last night received dispatch
from a small town in Illinois stating that his
father. NJ Marks. had dropped dead there last
evening. The deceased was a resident of this
CITY, and was In Illinois on business trip
WRECK ON THE J..
The passenger train on the j., NJ. & l. rail.
road. due here at 1890 o'clock last night, was
delayed two hours by the wreck of freight
train below Seymour. Several cars of the train
jumped the track and were badly smashed. So
far as could be learned. no one was injured.
COUNTY EXPENSES AND INDEBTEDNESS.
The State Bureau of Statistics has received
and tabuated returns from all the counties in
the State, regarding the Indebtedness and ex-
penses for the year ending June 3d. 1887 The
bonded debt for the year was 81, 228. S25; floating
debt, $I01, 12l; gross debt, 81 929 GAG; sinking
fund, 1882. 423. Leaving net debt Of 81. 547.-
523.
AN AGED woMAN's SUICIDAL MANIA
Alice Hipwel living at No. IL Massachusetts
avenue. was declared insane yesterday. by a
commission composed of Justices johnson and
Feibleman and DR.. Bryan. She is sixty-four
years of age. and a widow. Recently she has
shown a suicidal mania, and on several occa-
sions has attempted to throw herself out of
second-story window
MAYOR DENNY FILES HIS BONDS.
Mayor Denny yesterday filed a bond with the
County Clerk for the sum of S., 900, with James
F. Baker, Daniel NJ Ransdell and Roger r.
Shiel as suretes, and another with the city
clerk for SIS. 900, with Moses @. Nolan aud By
ron K. Elliott as sureties, the statute requiring
two bonds. one for the protection Of the State
and the other of the city.
RUN INTO BY A LOCOMOTIVE.
The outgoing passenger train the eastern
division of the l., B. g. w. railroad, which left
the Union Depot at IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing. ran into a delivery wagon belonging to
Fred Gaul. the wood dealer, at the Northst
crossing, and killed the horse attached to the
wagon. The boy who was driving was thrown a
distance OF twenty feet, but was unhurt-
LARGE LAND SALE.
There has been q very noticeable improve
ment in the real estate market this week, and
real estate agents are almost ready to predict
another boom The deeds recorded yesterday
represented $50 000 The most notable transac-
ton was the sale of 238 acres OF land adjoining
the Shooting Park to Hiram Miller, ex-county
treasurer, by Henry Schurmann for $2S. 500.
WILL sTEEG's COMMISSION BE REVOKED?
Governor Gray is of the opinion that he has
no power under the law to revoke notary's
commission. Mayor Denny will therefore file
petition in the Circuit Court. asking Judge Ayres,
on whose certificate of good character, j. L. F.
Steeg was appointed q notary. to revoke his
commission. Judge Ayres has done this in
case in Hendricks county since he was elected.
MEYERS AGAIN HEARD FROM
John E. Cole, marshal Of Jeffersonville, writes
to the Governor, under date OF Oct IL, that
Frank Meyers has been in that city since Oct 9.
He says Meyers has been behaving properly, and
has abstaired from liquor while there. Inquiries
made elsewhere verify this statement. The
port that he was engaged in a saloon row here
last Friday night was due to mistaken identity.
COLONEL DUDLEY HEARD FROM AGAIN.
City Engineer Shearer yesterday completed
the survey of the proposed line Of the Gable
Street-railway Company from Woodruff Place
to Haughville, and everything is now in readi-
ness for the company to begin work Mr.. Shear
has received note from Colonel Dudley, in
which he says that work will be commenced on
the line in few weeks, and he renews mis- prom
Use to have it in operation by Jan. l.
JUBILEE OF coLoRED REPUBLICANS.
A jubilee under the auspices of the Porter
Denny Republican Club will be held this
ing at the A. NJ. E. Church. corner of Vermont
and Columbia streets The speakers who are
expected to be present are General Harrison. ex-
Governor Porter. Mayor Denny L. T. Kitchener.
Chas. f. Griffin. Revs John w. Gazaway. A. A.
Price and VIM. H. Arnold. DR.. S. A. Ebert.
Col. A. A. Jones. John w. Bowlus and others.
PERMITS FOR NEW HOUSES.
The following building permits were issued
yesterday: VIM. A. E. Kuhn, frame dwelling
on Broadway street. near Lincoln avenue, $780,
J. b. Dill. four frame cottages on Eighth street,
near Columbia avenue, $500 each; F. W. CHS
lett frame store-room on Seventh street, near
of No. 612 North Pennsylvania street.
$3.50: j. A. Schumacher, frame house on corner
Vine and Oak street, 81, 200.
A FoREMAN's FEARFUL FALL.
Yesterday afternoon, at o'clock, Simon Win
stead, foreman of the force of carpenters at
work on the new Union Depot, fell from a part
of the wall twenty feet high, to the ground be-
meath, and was dangerously. if not fatally in
iured. In the descent he struck some of the
tmbers and his spine was wrenched. He
removed to his home. No. 148 Hosbrook street,
and not expected to recover last night He
has wife and several children.
CLOSE OF THE HoME-RULE FAIR
Not less than four hundred people helped
make the closing night of the home-rule fair a
success. A great deal of interest conferred in
the rafting off of the various articles on exhibl-
ton that had been left unsold. and they were
all disposed of advantageously. The amount
of the receipts could only be Appropriated last
night, aud the estimate is $1,000 AS the ex-
penses have been light, owing to the generosity
of a great many people. the amount will nearly
all be profit
FINANCES OF THE NORTHERN PRISON.
The warden of the northern prison has filed
his report for July. August and September with
the Auditor of State. The receipts and
ipgs are as follows: For July. So, 597 03; August.
So 42l IT; September $S, 233 49, total, 500 252 r.
The expenditures For july, $3.50 IL;
August. $7,646 81; September, &C. 466 0S; total
S23, Sol. There was on hand at the beginning
OF the quarter sl5. 723 81. of which S8. 600
RENTED to the Treasurer of State. The balance
on hand Oct ], 1887. was $I0.0l8 %. The excess
of receipts and earnings over expenditures for